Late last night there was an impromptu meeting called at the amphitheatre, around creating a system for handling/providing care for individuals who might be constantly disruptive in the camp. Also discussed was the need for a direct plan to defend the camp against police violence. Some individuals expressed that a plan was already in place, but as we change & grow every day, there seems to be a need for this to be repeated, clarified. Come to today’s General Assembly and participate in decision-making!

Anyone else feeling urgency for mass meditation in the space, Tai Chi, Chi Gong, Yin Yoga?
A grounding practice that will help us STAY in place when we need to support one another and STAY when we need to resist the police? The energy is getting hot, and anyone who feels like they have a resource, this might be the time to bring it up. Let’s love and protect one another!

**The Oscar Grant Plaza Gazette aims to be a voice & record of the historic Occupy Oakland movement, part of a national & international movement of resistance. Please consider writing your thoughts, reflections, opinions, and what you’ve seen — you are part of this movement & we want to get your words out there !

“As for cooption, there will indeed be many attempts to take over or manipulate the movement. But I don’t think they’ll have a very easy time of it. From the beginning the occupation movement has been resolutely antihierarchical and participatory. General assembly decisions are scrupulously democratic and most decisions are taken by consensus —
a process which can sometimes be unwieldy, but which has the merit of making any manipulation practically impossible. In fact, the real threat is the other way around: The example of participatory democracy ultimately threatens all hierarchies and social divisions, including those between rank-and-file workers and their union bureaucracies, and between political parties and their constituents. Which is why so many politicians and union bureaucrats are trying to jump on the bandwagon. That is a reflection of our strength, not of our weakness. (Cooption happens when we are tricked into riding in their wagons.) “
From: http://bopsecrets.org/

SUPPLY
NEEDS
~~~ HIGHEST PRIORITY LISTED
AT TOP / IN CAPITAL LETTERS

~~~ NO NEED TO CONTACT
US FIRST, JUST BRING IT ON DOWN TO THE SUPPLY TENT AT OSCAR GRANT PLAZA,
14TH AND BROADWAY

** buy used goods wherever possible!!!!! and be
thoughtful about who/ what businesses you patronize…

HOT LIST : PLEASE BRING ALL SUPPLIES TO THE SUPPLY TENT FIRST
First aid: bottled water, hand sanitizer, pain killers, single serving Neosporin. If you know what medical chucks are, we need them.

Need a volunteer to pick up & deliver hay bales. Hay bales can be got from Golden Gate Race Track, $8/bale, go before 3pm to get them, tell the guard that’s what you’re there for.

MEDICS

PRINTING AND COPYING

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